{"id":1464,"date":"2007-12-18T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1464"},"modified":"2007-12-18T06:01:32","modified_gmt":"2007-12-18T11:01:32","slug":"stalker-bargain-bin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1464","title":{"rendered":"STALKER: Bargain Bin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I saw the bad buzz surrounding the game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and decided to give it a pass.  High system requirements, crashes, rampant bugs, sluggish performance and that sort of griping led me to stay clear of the thing until it hit the bargain bin.  <\/p>\n<p><table   class=\"\" cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/stalker_price.jpg' class='insetimage'   alt='stalker_price.jpg' title='stalker_price.jpg'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>I guess it just did. I don&#8217;t know that I&#8217;ve <i>seen<\/i> a game go that low from the lofty heights of A-List pricetag.  Usually they bottom out at $9.99, and in rare cases, $4.99. But less than four dollars? That&#8217;s yard sale prices, right there.  I know in some places the game is still retailing for about $30.  I don&#8217;t know if the $3.74 was a mistake perpetrated by my local Target, or if they really wanted rid of the thing, but it&#8217;s just too cheap to pass up at this price.  <\/p>\n<p>I know a lot of the problems with the game have been ironed out in a series of patches, so it will be interesting to see how it all turned out in the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I saw the bad buzz surrounding the game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and decided to give it a pass. High system requirements, crashes, rampant bugs, sluggish performance and that sort of griping led me to stay clear of the thing until it hit the bargain bin. I guess it just did. I don&#8217;t know that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[68],"class_list":["post-1464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-stalker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}